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Saturday, 11 June 2011

THE GRAND TOUR OF WHITFIELD - 1986

1234561 - ABERLADY CRESCENT2 - WHITFIELD DRIVE3 - HADDINGTON CRESCENT4 - DUNBAR CRESCENT5 - DUNBAR CRESCENT6 - TRANENT CRESCENTThese pictures around Whitfield were taken in March 1986 and should bring back a few memories.Since then, the Skarne blocks at Aberlady, Haddington and Tranent have all been demolished, as have the multis, and the Dunbar Crescent area is now Dunbar Park.The good old days or bad old days?A mate of mine who lived in Whitfield in the 70's was telling me he has a hazy memory of when the all-weather pitch had an inauguration match between DFC v United to officially mark the switching on of the floodlights, which was the first of it's kind back then.Anyone recall this?Photos by Neale Elder.

28 comments:

Me and joe reilly used to use his flat as rehersal rooms for Fungicide as there was only one other person in the whole block who was out of it, we'd lined a bedroom with matresses and gave it laldy, my ears are still ringing ; )

I canr believe how deserted the photos are, I used to go there loads in the very early 80's and there were always loads of folks around and kids playing and stuff, even at 3 in the morning! These must have been taken about dawn time huh?

Stoo, I was 21 years old going on 22: do you really think I was up at dawn time? (LOL!) No, it was the middle of a Saturday afternoon and I remember Whitfield being absolutely deserted, except for one gent who called merrily from a window as I walked down from Dunbar to Summerfield Avenue. Oh, the banter!

can you provide me with pics of the longhaugh hotel info about it being a former mansion house and was there a farm called longhaugh near where the quarry was i am a member of a group trying to increase the biodiversity on longhaugh hill anyone interested in joining we may be setting up a friends of longhaugh hill grouppat

hey Dave, hello, my name is Tony, and I am from Argentina, I was living in the Longhaugh hotel in the 1978. I have a picture in front the hotel main door. Please can you tell me how old were you in the 1978?

Lived in Cranston crescent in the early eighties...brilliant childhood memories...always SOMETHING happen in somewhaur...the photos are amazing...my heart jumped when I saw the wee park behind the big brown block...thankyou to whoever posted those 😉👍